Financial Thought Leader Ed Hyman and Great Investor Dennis Stattman have each reached the pinnacle of success in their fields.

Ed Hyman, the Co-Founder and Chairman of independent research firm ISI Group has been voted Wall Street’s Number One Economist for an unprecedented 33 years in a row.

Dennis Stattman launched the now $50 billion plus BlackRock Global Allocation Fund in 1989. A Morningstar analyst favorite, this go anywhere, invest in all asset classes fund has delivered equity like 10% annualized returns, with much less than stock market risk since the beginning.

We asked each of them to take us back in time and describe when their interest in finance began.